Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and finally in Austin, Texas.

The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto — former Texas Instruments senior managers.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Id Software LLC is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas.

While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.

He published Volume IIA in October 2003 with Landes Bioscience while serving as a research scientist at Zyvex Corp., a nanotechnology company headquartered in Richardson, Texas, during 2000-2004.

* San Antonio Shoemakers, a shoe company in San Antonio, Texas, USA

Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas.

Gordon K. Teal was the first to develop a working silicon transistor, and his company, the nascent Texas Instruments, profited from its technological edge.

The company has its origins in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, when an employee of Southland Ice Company, John Jefferson Green, started selling milk, eggs and bread from an improvised storefront in one of the company's ice houses.

Texas Instruments Inc. (), known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology.

The company was reorganized and initially renamed General Instruments Inc. Because there already existed a firm named General Instrument, the company was renamed Texas Instruments that same year.

In 1951 the company changed its name to Texas Instruments, GSI becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company.

However, Hill, without the benefit of a central company, managed to acquire the Colorado and Southern Railway lines into Texas, and to build the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

Its regional headquarters is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the company has brewing facilities in Albany, Georgia ; Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin ; Eden, North Carolina ; Fort Worth, Texas ; Irwindale, California ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; and Trenton, Ohio.

The Texas Instruments company in 1995 released the TI-92 calculator with an advanced CAS based on the software Derive.

* 1931 – The Texas Company ( Texaco's corporate name ) purchases Indian Oil Company, based in Illinois, a move that expands Texaco's refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gives Texaco the rights to Indian's manufacturing processes of Havoline " Wax Free " motor oil, which becomes a Texaco product and provides the company with a higher-quality motor oil product.

The Texas company was pronounced with three syllables and a hard " g ": A-gear-uh.

Another group that was also based in North Texas who were aware of the Bill Mack venture on XERF and the replacement of his time slot by the Texas Night Train were the owners of a company attempting to revive the British offshore station Wonderful Radio London.

Production was later taken over by Raytheon Corporation ( RAYCO ) when it purchased the defense production business of Texas Instruments.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The following year the BBFC passed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for release with an 18 certificate ( indicating that it should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 ), and it was broadcast a year later on Channel 4.

In 1869, other investors and he purchased an old steamship onto which they loaded one of Lowe ’ s refrigeration units, and began shipping fresh fruit from New York to the Gulf Coast area, and fresh meat from Galveston, Texas back to New York.

In November 1980, The Jewel Companies Inc. purchased Sav-on Drugs, Inc. Sav-on Drugs was headquartered in Anaheim, California and had 150 stores in California, Nevada and Texas.

* A Cerberus-led group of investors, ( who included Kimco Realty Corporation, Schottenstein Stores Corp., Lubert-Adler Partners, and Klaff Realty ) purchased the Albertsons stores in northern California, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona, and New Mexico forming a new corporation called Albertsons LLC.

* National City ( Kalamazoo was formerly the corporate HQ of First of America Bank, which merged with National City Bank in 1997 ), National City has since been purchased and merged with PNC Bank which still maintains a large corporate building in Texas Township, and several downtown along with branches in the region.

In November 1997, NCR purchased Dataworks Inc., a 60-person privately held company in San Antonio, Texas.

* 1975 Fort Terrett Ranch is purchased by the Texas oil industrrialist Bill Noël and used in part for the growing of pecans.

The land along the Paluxy River for Dinosaur Valley State Park was purchased by the State of Texas in 1968, and the park opened to the public in 1972.

A large number of Central Texas Germans purchased county lands, thus beginning a small-scale migration of Germans into the county that lasted into the 1950s.

Following the annexation of Texas by the United States ( 1845 ), Prussian immigrant August Wilhelm Schumann arrived on the Texas coast aboard the SS Franziska in 1846 and purchased in Guadalupe County.

Later sold, in 2006 it was purchased by a Collins Radio collector in Texas.

George Tyng, general manager of the property, built the headquarters for White Deer or Diamond F Ranch at the site in 1887. around the same time, the Purcell Company purchased land in the vicinity as a right-of-way for the Southern Kansas Railway of Texas.

Ybanez purchased a tract of land outside all towns from the state of Texas ( who'd obtained title from the federal government after WWII.

Most of these east Texas families purchased land from the railroad companies.

In 1871, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad ( H & TC ) purchased of land in Ellis County at a price of, establishing the line's northern terminus.

The Texas Traction Company completed a interurban between Sherman and Dallas, Texas in 1908 and it purchased the Denison and Sherman Railway in 1911.

Just after 1900 the Louisiana Texas Orchard Company purchased surrounding the settlement and platted a town named Latexo, an acronym of the company's name.

Warren purchased the approximately and the townsite was named Hewitt in 1883 for George A. Hewitt, an employee of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ( KATY ) Railroad.

The commission purchased a 60-acre tract of Daniel Monroe's headright on the Little River in 1846 and named the new community Cameron after Ewen Cameron, a Scot highlander prominent in the Texas Revolution and a member of the Mier Expedition during the war with Mexico.

This area was held for many years by and purchased from the Hunt family of Texas.